Period 4
The Kite Runner 1.) Read 4&5 2.)Honors only: Write your own editorial that discusses the misconceptions related to your culture/heritage. 400-500 words. Share in a google doc. Due Monday, 9.15.14. 3.) Read and annotate advice articles 4.) Read chapter 9. 5.) According to R. Gayan Priyankara: "Everything falls apart when you do one stupid thing.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement and why? Make sure to include specific examples from The Kite Runner to support your points. Discussion on Tuesday! 6.) For Wednesday, 10.1.14, EVERYONE will read chapters 10, 11, and 12. Honors only: Answer the following prompt using chapters 1-12.
You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” —Sonsyrea Tate
Sonsyrea Tate’s statement suggests that “home” may be conceived of as a dwelling, a place, or a state of mind. It may have positive or negative associations, but in either case, it may have a considerable influence on an individual. From The Kite Runner, choose a central character leaves home yet finds that home remains significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and the reasons for its continuing influence. Explain how the character’s idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work. Do not merely summarize the plot. AP 2010. (700-800 words).
13.) Read 14 and 15
14.) All due Monday, 10.20.14.
-Read chapters 17, 18, 19, 20,21
-Draft 4 of college essay due Tuesday, 10.21.14, Bring a printed out copy to class.
-Come with notes to discuss for a student run discussion
-Letter from Amir- Amir has learned a lot about himself and his family over his 30+ years. Pretend you are Amir. Really put yourself in his shoes and write a letter to one of the following characters: Hassan, Ali, or Baba. What do you want to say or wish you had said? Include specific references to the text. 1 page and will count as a quiz grade
15.) For Thursday, 10.30.14: Go back through all the resources you have read and prepare to write an in-class essay citing multiple sources that identifies the qualities of a good college essay. Bring NOTES. Your notes will be graded.
Identify and evaluate at least three components of a “successful” college essay. Use the sources you have read in class, as well as other readings and personal experience, to develop your argument and explain the reasoning for it. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotations, paraphrase, or summary.
Potential texts: College essay samples, “Stop Writing the Same 4 Essays,” “Topics to Avoid,” college essay advice (there are 2 here).
16.) Read chapter 23
17.) “13 Views” After reading The Kite Runner, choose a chapter or character from the text and write a poem. Your poem must contain the following:
Each stanza will offer a different view of the character or chapter
The poem will contain 13 stanzas
Each stanza will not be more than 5 lines long
Each line should be short; no more than 7 words
If you are writing about a character, you should first brainstorm 13 different characteristics of the character or moments in the text that portray the character in a different light. If you writing about a chapter, it should be 13 different ways a moment(s) could be viewed.
Due: Wednesday, 11.12.14. This counts as a major assignment for Q2
College Essay
1.) Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
2.) Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
3.) Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
4.) Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
5.) Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Important Due Dates: Thursday, 9.25.14: Draft #1 Thursday, 10.2.14: Draft #2 Tuesday, 10.14.14: Draft #3 -Tuesday, 10.21.14: Draft #4 Bring a printed out copy to class.
1.) 11.17.14: Culture Cartoons Due
2.) Finish "The Story". Read and mark up "Barbie-Q" (above)
3.) a.) After reading "Barbie-Q" and understanding author's purpose, visit the Barbie website and browse the history of Barbie. Consider the role Barbie has played over history and the role it plays today. Come with 5 quotations/facts, etc., that you feel are important to discuss. Make sure that you have a rationale for each quotations/fact you choose. This means come with notes! History of Barbie
b.) Read the article below from NY Daily News, which offers a different perspective on Barbie. Come with points to discuss and consider all the texts we have read related to Barbie while doing so. Make sure you have notes for the discussion. Barbie as a real woman is anataomically impossible... c.) Discussion on Wednesday, 11.19.14 4.) Read and come notes to discuss on the article below.
6.) Find an advertisement (not commercial) and complete the rhetorical triangle. Make sure you bring the advertisement to class. The advertisement must contain men in it or promote a male product. 7.) Read an annotate the excerpt from "A Thousand Splendid Suns." Focus on identity and culture.
Synthesis Essay (Honors Only): A person’s identity is largely shaped by one’s culture and heritage. Choose three of the short stories we have read (excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns, excerpt from Americanah, The Confession: Part Two, and/or “Milk Years") and write a synthesis paper explaining the role heritage or culture has on shaping each narrator’s perspective of herself or society.
9.) Brainstorm for synthesis essay 10.) Synthesis Essay due Wednesday, 1/7/15
POL Dates:
Wednesday, 12.3.14: Choose a poem
Friday, 12.12.14: Memorize entire poem. You must be able to write your poem from memory
Thursday, 12.18.14: Practice POL round in groups
Hamlet
1.) Pre-decting lines in Hamlet
2.) Using Polonius' speech as a model, write advice to a new student at your school. How do you navigate the social scene? What foods should you avoid in the cafeteria? ( Honors only: 3/4 page)
3.) Step 1: Select a line from the play that he or she finds particularly powerful or central to the play. This line should contain an image you wish to explore.
Step 2: Brainstorm a web for the lines that you choose. Think about the following: What words come to mind when we hear these words? What do the words mean (i.e., How would you define them)? Do the words have any connections to the Bible, mythology, or history? What colors, smells, tastes, sounds, and sights come to mind when you hear these words? When you have filled in several words, try to connect the associations together to see if a general theme, character, or situation emerges. Don’t be afraid to let your imagination take control!
4.)Characters in Hamlet
As we read Hamlet, you will be assigned a character and be responsible for tracking the character. The tracking of your character will count as DJs and you will analyze the character throughout reading the play. You will complete the following while analyzing your assigned character:
§ Motivation
§ Personality
§ Interactions/feelings with other characters
§ Any important soliloquys or speeches that reveal insight into the character
Note: if your character changes, you definitely need to make note of it.
Hamlet
Horatio
Orphelia
Queen Gertude
King Claudius
Laertes
Polonius
5.)Open response: Which version, overall, did you feel best captured the text? Explain your reasoning with specific examples from all sources. The more specific, the better (Mel Gibson: 1990; Kenneth Brannagh: 1996).
6.) Finish reading Act 1, scene 5. If you are tracking Hamlet or Horatio, you should definitely be adding to your DJs. Also choose a topic for your research paper using the cite below. Remember, it needs to be the same year you were born and on or as close to your birthday as possible. __http://www.historyorb.com__
7.) Complete What is Hamlet Thinking? Shared in a google doc.
8.) All Annotated Bibliographies due (rough draft): Tuesday, 2.24.15. If you don't turn these in on time, you will not receive any feedback.
9.) For Monday, Read the excerpts from "Ophelia." Compare her perspective with the one scene in the play, 3.1. You will have to review 3.1 Come with specific points to discuss.
10.) "Remembrance of Yours"…Analyzing characters using mementos (Folger Shakespeare)
Using your character tracking DJs, you will complete a project on the following: 1.) Creative piece: Create a 3-D symbol for your character (this cannot be a symbol found in the play). You creation should reflect hard work and attention to detail. The symbol should be original and accurately illustrates your characters, as a whole. 2.) Written piece: a detailed explanation how the symbol connects with your character; 5 quotations from the play, with an explanation, on the relation of the symbol to the character. 3.) Presentation!
Research Paper Due Dates:
Tuesday, 3/3/15: Revised ABs due
Thursday, 3/5/15: Parts 1-3 outline due (thesis, background, cause/effect)
Tuesday, 3/10/15: Part 4 due (multiple perspective)
Friday, 3/13/15: parts 5 and 6 due
Tuesday, 3/17/15: Rough draft due
War; Peace; Survival Unit
1.) Read the editorial from the New York Times, "Let's Draft Our Kids". Come with talking points and complete a DJ Let's Draft Our Kids
2.) Read "War Wounds" and come with talking points for Thursday.
3.) Read "The War on Suicide". Come with talk points.
4.) After reading "The War on Suicide", "War Wounds", watching "Why Soldiers Miss War", "Escaping the Khmer Rouge" and "Inside a School for Suicide Bombers", what role does war play on cultures, the individual, and families. Include 3 text to support your point and include specific examples (500 words). Due Tuesday, 5/12/15
5.) Due Friday, 5/15/15: For the spring assessment, to show growth in this area, submit a portion of your research paper (no more than a page) that shows integration of sources and cohesion of argument . Share with my in a googledoc labeled, (last name, Spring DDM).
The Kite Runner
1.) Read 4&5
2.)Honors only: Write your own editorial that discusses the misconceptions related to your culture/heritage. 400-500 words. Share in a google doc. Due Monday, 9.15.14.
3.) Read and annotate advice articles
4.) Read chapter 9.
5.) According to R. Gayan Priyankara: "Everything falls apart when you do one stupid thing.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement and why? Make sure to include specific examples from The Kite Runner to support your points. Discussion on Tuesday!
6.) For Wednesday, 10.1.14, EVERYONE will read chapters 10, 11, and 12. Honors only: Answer the following prompt using chapters 1-12.
You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” —Sonsyrea Tate
Sonsyrea Tate’s statement suggests that “home” may be conceived of as a dwelling, a place, or a state of mind. It may have positive or negative associations, but in either case, it may have a considerable influence on an individual. From The Kite Runner, choose a central character leaves home yet finds that home remains significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and the reasons for its continuing influence. Explain how the character’s idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work. Do not merely summarize the plot. AP 2010. (700-800 words).
13.) Read 14 and 1514.) All due Monday, 10.20.14.
-Read chapters 17, 18, 19, 20,21
-Draft 4 of college essay due Tuesday, 10.21.14, Bring a printed out copy to class.
-Come with notes to discuss for a student run discussion
-Letter from Amir-
Amir has learned a lot about himself and his family over his 30+ years. Pretend you are Amir. Really put yourself in his shoes and write a letter to one of the following characters: Hassan, Ali, or Baba. What do you want to say or wish you had said? Include specific references to the text. 1 page and will count as a quiz grade
15.) For Thursday, 10.30.14: Go back through all the resources you have read and prepare to write an in-class essay citing multiple sources that identifies the qualities of a good college essay. Bring NOTES. Your notes will be graded.
Identify and evaluate at least three components of a “successful” college essay. Use the sources you have read in class, as well as other readings and personal experience, to develop your argument and explain the reasoning for it. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotations, paraphrase, or summary.
Potential texts: College essay samples, “Stop Writing the Same 4 Essays,” “Topics to Avoid,” college essay advice (there are 2 here).
16.) Read chapter 23
17.)
“13 Views”
After reading The Kite Runner, choose a chapter or character from the text and write a poem. Your poem must contain the following:
- Each stanza will offer a different view of the character or chapter
- The poem will contain 13 stanzas
- Each stanza will not be more than 5 lines long
- Each line should be short; no more than 7 words
If you are writing about a character, you should first brainstorm 13 different characteristics of the character or moments in the text that portray the character in a different light. If you writing about a chapter, it should be 13 different ways a moment(s) could be viewed.Due: Wednesday, 11.12.14. This counts as a major assignment for Q2
College Essay
1.) Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
2.) Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
3.) Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
4.) Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
5.) Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Important Due Dates:
Thursday, 9.25.14: Draft #1
Thursday, 10.2.14: Draft #2
Tuesday, 10.14.14: Draft #3
-Tuesday, 10.21.14: Draft #4 Bring a printed out copy to class.
Barbie Clips:
First Ever Barbie Commercial
1970s Barbie
Hula Hair Barbie 1996
2010: I Can Be Anything
1.) 11.17.14: Culture Cartoons Due
2.) Finish "The Story". Read and mark up "Barbie-Q" (above)
3.) a.) After reading "Barbie-Q" and understanding author's purpose, visit the Barbie website and browse the history of Barbie. Consider the role Barbie has played over history and the role it plays today. Come with 5 quotations/facts, etc., that you feel are important to discuss. Make sure that you have a rationale for each quotations/fact you choose. This means come with notes!
History of Barbie
b.) Read the article below from NY Daily News, which offers a different perspective on Barbie. Come with points to discuss and consider all the texts we have read related to Barbie while doing so. Make sure you have notes for the discussion.
Barbie as a real woman is anataomically impossible...
c.) Discussion on Wednesday, 11.19.14
4.) Read and come notes to discuss on the article below.
5.) For Monday, 12.1.14. Read the articles below and come with detailed notes. Also finish all Miss Representation logs.
6.) Find an advertisement (not commercial) and complete the rhetorical triangle. Make sure you bring the advertisement to class. The advertisement must contain men in it or promote a male product.
7.) Read an annotate the excerpt from "A Thousand Splendid Suns." Focus on identity and culture.
8.) Read and annotate 'Milk Years"
Synthesis Essay (Honors Only):
A person’s identity is largely shaped by one’s culture and heritage. Choose three of the short stories we have read (excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns, excerpt from Americanah, The Confession: Part Two, and/or “Milk Years") and write a synthesis paper explaining the role heritage or culture has on shaping each narrator’s perspective of herself or society.
9.) Brainstorm for synthesis essay
10.) Synthesis Essay due Wednesday, 1/7/15
POL Dates:
Wednesday, 12.3.14: Choose a poem
Friday, 12.12.14: Memorize entire poem. You must be able to write your poem from memory
Thursday, 12.18.14: Practice POL round in groups
Hamlet
1.) Pre-decting lines in Hamlet2.) Using Polonius' speech as a model, write advice to a new student at your school. How do you navigate the social scene? What foods should you avoid in the cafeteria? ( Honors only: 3/4 page)
3.) Step 1: Select a line from the play that he or she finds particularly powerful or central to the play. This line should contain an image you wish to explore.
Step 2: Brainstorm a web for the lines that you choose. Think about the following: What words come to mind when we hear these words? What do the words mean (i.e., How would you define them)? Do the words have any connections to the Bible, mythology, or history? What colors, smells, tastes, sounds, and sights come to mind when you hear these words? When you have filled in several words, try to connect the associations together to see if a general theme, character, or situation emerges. Don’t be afraid to let your imagination take control!
4.)Characters in Hamlet
As we read Hamlet, you will be assigned a character and be responsible for tracking the character. The tracking of your character will count as DJs and you will analyze the character throughout reading the play. You will complete the following while analyzing your assigned character:
- § Motivation
- § Personality
- § Interactions/feelings with other characters
- § Any important soliloquys or speeches that reveal insight into the character
- Note: if your character changes, you definitely need to make note of it.
- Hamlet
- Horatio
- Orphelia
- Queen Gertude
- King Claudius
- Laertes
- Polonius
5.)Open response: Which version, overall, did you feel best captured the text? Explain your reasoning with specific examples from all sources. The more specific, the better (Mel Gibson: 1990; Kenneth Brannagh: 1996).6.) Finish reading Act 1, scene 5. If you are tracking Hamlet or Horatio, you should definitely be adding to your DJs. Also choose a topic for your research paper using the cite below. Remember, it needs to be the same year you were born and on or as close to your birthday as possible.
__http://www.historyorb.com__
7.) Complete What is Hamlet Thinking? Shared in a google doc.
8.) All Annotated Bibliographies due (rough draft): Tuesday, 2.24.15. If you don't turn these in on time, you will not receive any feedback.
9.) For Monday, Read the excerpts from "Ophelia." Compare her perspective with the one scene in the play, 3.1. You will have to review 3.1 Come with specific points to discuss.
10.) "Remembrance of Yours"…Analyzing characters using mementos (Folger Shakespeare)
Using your character tracking DJs, you will complete a project on the following:
1.) Creative piece: Create a 3-D symbol for your character (this cannot be a symbol found in the play). You creation should reflect hard work and attention to detail. The symbol should be original and accurately illustrates your characters, as a whole.
2.) Written piece: a detailed explanation how the symbol connects with your character; 5 quotations from the play, with an explanation, on the relation of the symbol to the character.
3.) Presentation!
Hamlet Online Text
Research Paper Due Dates:
Tuesday, 3/3/15: Revised ABs due
Thursday, 3/5/15: Parts 1-3 outline due (thesis, background, cause/effect)
Tuesday, 3/10/15: Part 4 due (multiple perspective)
Friday, 3/13/15: parts 5 and 6 due
Tuesday, 3/17/15: Rough draft due
War; Peace; Survival Unit
1.) Read the editorial from the New York Times, "Let's Draft Our Kids". Come with talking points and complete a DJ
Let's Draft Our Kids
2.) Read "War Wounds" and come with talking points for Thursday.
3.) Read "The War on Suicide". Come with talk points.
4.) After reading "The War on Suicide", "War Wounds", watching "Why Soldiers Miss War", "Escaping the Khmer Rouge" and "Inside a School for Suicide Bombers", what role does war play on cultures, the individual, and families. Include 3 text to support your point and include specific examples (500 words). Due Tuesday, 5/12/15
5.)
Due Friday, 5/15/15: For the spring assessment, to show growth in this area, submit a portion of your research paper (no more than a page) that shows integration of sources and cohesion of argument . Share with my in a googledoc labeled, (last name, Spring DDM).